Big data analytics
Big data analytics is the process of examining big data to uncover information -- such as hidden patterns, correlations, market trends and customer preferences -- that can help organizations make informed business decisions.. See complete definition.
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News
07 Jun 2024
European data chief prepares bid to get UK to join EU digital single market
Data initiative Gaia-X is trying to plug the UK into a planned digital European single market, as the EU seeks to extend the reach of vast and controversial data laws over global supply chains Continue Reading
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E-Zine
09 Nov 2023
Heineken lets the data flow
In this month’s CW EMEA ezine, we find out about Heineken’s mission to make the most out of the data it holds through an enterprise-wide data ecosystem. We also look at how the UK has turned its back on the German government-funded Gaia-X data platform, why cyber experts are urging the EU to rethink vulnerability disclosure plans, and how the IT industry is responding to the software developer skills shortfall. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
24 Sep 2013
C-level executives cry out for data scientists
Board level executives are putting pressure on their IT organisations to find data scientists, according to Teradata research Continue Reading
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Photo Story
24 Sep 2013
Big trends from Oracle OpenWorld 2013: Big data and cloud
Oracle tackled issues of big data and cloud head on at its annual OpenWorld 2013 user conference in San Francisco Continue Reading
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News
16 Sep 2013
British Army’s manpower planning saves £770m through SAS BI
The British Army's headquarters is using SAS to analyse and more efficiently allocate manpower and resources Continue Reading
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News
12 Sep 2013
Quantum upgrades big data storage to StorNext 5
Quantum’s StorNext big data tiered architecture operating software gets a boost to five billion files and a claimed 10x performance jump via multi-threaded CPU ops Continue Reading
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News
05 Sep 2013
Unlocking the value of big data
This independent report provides the first in-depth assessment of the role that data-intensive technology can play in supporting jobs and growth in Ireland over the next five years. Continue Reading
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News
04 Sep 2013
Diageo to change how it manages APIs to support digital strategy
Diageo is contemplating introducing a lightweight middleware layer to better manage the APIs that govern the software services it uses Continue Reading
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News
28 Aug 2013
eHarmony finds MongoDB the perfect match for data store
Online dating site eHarmony has used open source NoSQL database MongoDB for its data store, to speed up delivery of matches between users Continue Reading
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News
27 Aug 2013
CW buyer's guide: data management
Effective use of data management systems will provide access to consistent, accurate and current information Continue Reading
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News
20 Aug 2013
Big Data in Big Companies
The International Institute for Analytics (IIA) and SAS, assess how 20 large firms have deployed analytics to generate value from their big data assets. Continue Reading
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News
20 Aug 2013
Privacy and big data
Sixteen key questions companies need to answer when considering the privacy and governance aspects of big data Continue Reading
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Opinion
05 Aug 2013
Whiteboard it – the power of graph databases
Graph databases map relationships between entities in a network. They won’t replace conventional relational databases, but for harnessing the value of interconnectedness they mark a breakthrough Continue Reading
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Feature
31 Jul 2013
Virgin Media uses ETAdirect to manage engineers more predictively
Virgin Media is using predictive analytics to get the right engineer out to the right problem. It believes its use of TOA Technologies cloud-based ETAdirect system gives it a competitive advantage Continue Reading
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Feature
30 Jul 2013
Big data journalism exposes offshore tax dodgers
How journalists harnessed big data to challenge offshore financial secrecy Continue Reading
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E-Zine
23 Jul 2013
The need for data speed
In this week's Computer Weekly, we find out how the McLaren Formula One team is using high-speed data analytics to improve race performance. Our new buyer's guide looks at best practices in data management. And we discuss IT leaders' frustrations about the unwanted complexities of software licensing. Continue Reading
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News
17 Jul 2013
The Economic Value of Data
Big data analytics promises to boost the profits of financial services firms, according to this report from Cognizant. Continue Reading
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News
17 Jul 2013
CW500: Back to the Future: Big Data at Channel 4
Bob Harris, Chief Technology Officer of Channel 4 Television, explains the broadcaster's approach to big data in this presentation for Computer Weekly's 500 Club. Continue Reading
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News
08 Jul 2013
Davenport: Travel industry data pioneer has lost way but can be saved
Tom Davenport sees the travel industry as a data pioneer that has lost its way, but can be redeemed Continue Reading
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News
03 Jul 2013
Ocado delivers with in-house software development
Online grocery retailer Ocado built its own software for its own business – and now it delivers for Morrisons Continue Reading
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E-Zine
02 Jul 2013
Business value from the internet of things
In this week's Computer Weekly, we hear from manufacturing giant GE about its plan for gaining business value from the "internet of things", analysing huge amounts of machine data in an industrial internet. Our latest buyer's guide looks at HR management systems. And we look at ways to improve the detection of data breaches. Continue Reading
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News
28 Jun 2013
Datacentres must be tuned to the application in the mobile-cloud era: Cisco
Cloud, big data and mobile applications are challenging the traditional datacentre infrastructure, says Cisco Continue Reading
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News
26 Jun 2013
Data quality more important than fixating over big data, says Shell VP
Johan Krebbers, vice-president of architecture at Shell, says it is more important to get data quality right than to find a ‘big data silver bullet’ Continue Reading
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News
17 Jun 2013
Startup profile: Growth Intelligence
Growth Intelligence is a technology startup offering a software-as-a-service (SaaS) product to B2B corporations wanting to search for sales leads. Continue Reading
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News
13 Jun 2013
Inadequate datacentre infrastructure is a barrier to big data analytics
Inadequate datacentre infrastructure and siloed work practices are preventing UK enterprises from benefiting from big data analytics, shows study Continue Reading
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News
10 Jun 2013
An Information Architecture Vision
The Open Group assesses the "big data" problem and offers an Enterprise Information Planning and Architecture Model to help organisations make the most of their information. Continue Reading
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News
06 Jun 2013
Sports performance data analytics fuels Opta’s business expansion
Football performance data could play a role in clubs’ scouting efforts, and even in footballer market evaluation, according to OptaSports Data Continue Reading
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News
03 Jun 2013
Gartner: Deriving value from Big Data for CRM
Kimberly Collins, research vice-president of Gartner highlights the critical steps organisations should to take to integrate big data into Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Continue Reading
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News
03 Jun 2013
CW500: Back to the Future: Big Data at Channel 4
Bob Harris, Chief Technology Officer of Channel 4 Television, explains the broadcaster's approach to big data in this presentation for Computer Weekly's 500 Club. Continue Reading
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News
29 May 2013
ARI uses HANA to power self-service BI for fleet management
ARI, the leasing and fleet management business, has used SAP HANA to boost business intelligence (BI) and predictive analytics Continue Reading
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News
24 May 2013
Eurovision Song Contest app built and delivered via Google's cloud platform
Service providers Scalr and Grandcentrix used Google Compute Engine to build the app for the second largest television event Continue Reading
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News
23 May 2013
UCL turns to private cloud to solve its data storage woes
University College London is building a storage infrastructure in the cloud that will scale up to 100PB Continue Reading
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News
22 May 2013
McLaren uses high-speed data analytics to gain Formula 1 edge
The McLaren Group uses high-speed data analytics as it seeks a competitive edge for its Formula 1 racing team engineers Continue Reading
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News
22 May 2013
Tesco uses big data to cut cooling costs by up to €20m
Tesco is aiming to save over €20m a year by using sophisticated analytical technology to ensure its chillers work at optimum temperature Continue Reading
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News
21 May 2013
Gartner: Big data will transform customer relationship management technology
CIOs need to start thinking how to integrate big data into their customer relationship management (CRM) systems, says technology analyst Continue Reading
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News
10 May 2013
Lean analytics to change business decision making
Attending to the “one metric that really matters” is one principle of a “lean analytics” approach Continue Reading
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News
08 May 2013
SAP readies the Hana-powered enterprise cloud
SAP is making its Hana in-memory database available as a hosted service to power enterprise applications Continue Reading
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News
01 May 2013
Beyond Big Data – The New Information Economy
How information is managed is more important than 'big data', say analysts Clive Longbottom and Rob Bamforth. Continue Reading
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News
01 May 2013
Information Security Breaches Survey 2013
Security breaches cost large businesses an average of £850,000, the 2013 Information Security Breaches Survey reveals. Continue Reading
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News
30 Apr 2013
Tesco uses supply chain analytics to save £100m a year
Understanding return on capital employed was a driving force behind an analytics programme which saves Tesco £100m in supply chain costs Continue Reading
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News
30 Apr 2013
Big data security: getting a grip on multiple data sources
Big data analyses multiple data points, but how do you ensure that ecosystem is secure? In this podcast, Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust, outlines the key steps in achieving big data security Continue Reading
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News
29 Apr 2013
Case study: Telefonica Ireland uses business intelligence to reduce churn
O2 Ireland, part of Telefonica, has been using Teradata’s data warehousing and Cognos BI to stop customers leaving and entice them with location-based offers Continue Reading
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News
22 Apr 2013
CIO interview: Mike Croucher, head of IT architecture and delivery, British Airways
After changes in IT leadership two years ago, the IT strategy at BA is focusing on infrastructure modernisation and smarter use of customer data Continue Reading
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News
17 Apr 2013
Business Outcomes from Big Data
This research study from CEB evaluates the CIO's role in making big data attainable and useful for the business. Continue Reading
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Podcast
08 Apr 2013
Big data storage: Defining big data and the type of storage it needs
Big data storage: What is big data, what compute/storage system configurations are used for big data analytics, and what type of storage infrastructure does it require? Continue Reading
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News
04 Apr 2013
Enabling the secure use of RFID
Dario Bevilacqua and Keith Mayes describe the design of an UHF RFID system for secure identification and tracking. Continue Reading
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News
04 Apr 2013
Is EMC Greenplum the real Hadoop company?
EMC Greenplum launched two new Hadoop-related technologies to support Big Data deployments. Analyst Group, Nucleus Research assesses their importance. Continue Reading
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News
03 Apr 2013
SAS: Data quality, data governance concerns impede big data programmes
Only 12% of information management professionals are doing big data, according to a survey from SAS and SourceMedia Continue Reading
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News
28 Mar 2013
Strategic investments drive modest growth in IT spending
The relatively stable economic climate has resulted in modest IT investment, according to Gartner’s latest quarterly spending forecast Continue Reading
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News
25 Mar 2013
Making sense of storage in a big data world
Robert White, executive director for enterprise infrastructure at Morgan Stanley, offers advice on how to develop a strategy for managing big data storage. Continue Reading
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News
22 Mar 2013
42% of businesses use existing IT department for big data projects
Businesses are creating in--house big data functions with 42% of big data pioneers use existing IT resources and 37% creating separate functions Continue Reading
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Feature
20 Mar 2013
What does a petabyte look like?
How can you visualise a petabyte of data? What is it in real terms? Some experts try to make real the colossal size of the mighty petabyte Continue Reading
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News
20 Mar 2013
CIO interview: Darrell Stein, IT director, Marks & Spencer
As M&S develops its multi-channel capability, Darrell Stein and his team are delivering projects focused on innovation and profitability Continue Reading
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News
12 Mar 2013
CW Buyer's Guide: Big Data Infrastructure
Computer Weekly looks at the mindset and technology infrastructure businesses need to analyse big data. Continue Reading
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News
06 Mar 2013
Businesses and IT suppliers to collaborate on big data
Businesses are to collaborate to work out how to exploit the rapidly growing volume of data generated by social media, mobile devices and the internet of things. Continue Reading
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News
26 Feb 2013
DDN launches hScaler Hadoop appliance for enterprises
HPC and clustered NAS supplier Data Direct Networks aims at enterprise customers with Hadoop appliance comprising its SFA12K storage and commodity compute components Continue Reading
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News
26 Feb 2013
Accenture Technology Vision 2013
Accenture's technology vision assesses the impact of digital technology on the enterprise in 2013 and offers action points for CIOs and business leaders. Continue Reading
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News
18 Feb 2013
Innovative business technologies in a converging world
This independently researched report investigates converging business technologies, including cloud computing, big data analytics and business intelligence. Continue Reading
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News
15 Feb 2013
IT budgets to grow in 2013 as economy bumps along
UK IT departments are planning to spend more on IT in 2013 despite the downturn, a worldwide survey of IT managers has revealed Continue Reading
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News
11 Feb 2013
Gartner: analytics will be more transparent, real-time and automated
Analyst firm Gartner has identified three trends for analytics and BI: transparency, real-time and automation Continue Reading
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News
11 Feb 2013
Skills Forecast: Big Data Analytics
This report analyses the projected demand for IT professionals with Big Data Analytic skills in the UK over the next five years. Continue Reading
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Feature
06 Feb 2013
Rugby Football Union uses IBM predictive analytics for Six Nations
IBM tries out predictive analytics software, TryTracker, developed in association with the Rugby Football Union (RFU) Continue Reading
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News
06 Feb 2013
Oracle’s MySQL 5.6 spans to NoSQL to offer more agility
Oracle has released version 5.6 of MySQL, which will hit the “sweet spot of the web market” according to Tomas Ulin, vice-president of engineering Continue Reading
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News
05 Feb 2013
Interview: John Harris, vice-president of global enterprise architecture, Aimia
Aimia, the organisation behind retail loyalty programme Nectar, is overhauling its IT to make the most of customer data Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Feb 2013
Process big data at speed
Low-cost solid state memory is powering high-speed analytics of big data streaming from social network feeds and the industrial internet. Continue Reading
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Feature
04 Feb 2013
Without analytics, it's 'big data, big schmada'
Data -- including big data -- has no value by itself, says TechTarget's Wayne Eckerson. It's what you do with data to gain business insights that counts. Continue Reading
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News
01 Feb 2013
Don’t make big data stand alone, warns Gartner
Gartner cautions organisations against treating big data as unique and criticises business intelligence suppliers for failing to exploit mobility Continue Reading
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News
31 Jan 2013
Digital app developer skills take centre stage in corporate IT
Digital information design skills, including building business apps, have assumed new importance in corporate IT over the past year Continue Reading
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News
28 Jan 2013
Enterprises bringing data back in-house for more flexibility, shows study
European enterprises are improving their internal datacentres and storing data in-house rather than on the external cloud Continue Reading
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Feature
24 Jan 2013
Online gambling sector bets on business intelligence
Online gambling and gaming industries crave structured business data. Volumes can be huge and they need to react to customer behaviour Continue Reading
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Photo Story
23 Jan 2013
The human face of Big Data
Former Time, Life and national Geographic photographer Rick Smolan visualises and navigates the world of Big Data. Continue Reading
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News
21 Jan 2013
UK citizens unwilling to embrace big data
The public sector could improve services by imitating the private sector’s use of big data, but citizens are overwhelmingly against the idea Continue Reading
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Feature
18 Jan 2013
GE uses big data to power machine services business
GE, one of the UK's largest manufacturers, is using big data analytics with data generated from machine sensors to predict maintenance needs Continue Reading
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News
17 Jan 2013
Betting site YouWin speeds response times with MongoDB database
Bookmaker WinUnited has deployed a MongoDB open source non-relational database from 10gen to help it better update betting odds in real time Continue Reading
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News
09 Jan 2013
King.com gaming site unlocks big data with Hadoop
Online gaming company King.com replaced its MySQL database with Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution to cope with big data Continue Reading
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News
12 Dec 2012
Data to grow more quickly says IDC’s Digital Universe study
IDC’s annual Digital Universe study finds data set to expand to 40 Zettabytes by 2020. Emerging markets and machine-generated data will account for increasing proportions of it. Continue Reading
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News
10 Dec 2012
Big data analytics set to confound conventional adoption curve in UK
Big data and analytics companies predict increased adoption in the UK. MapR, Cloudera, ParAccel and Pentaho sketch out the adoption curve Continue Reading
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Feature
15 Nov 2012
Hadoop World: Just like data warehousing's early days
The buzz-filled Hadoop World 2012 conference reminded TechTarget's Wayne Eckerson of a data warehousing event he attended in 1997. Still to be seen: Can Hadoop live up all to the hype? Continue Reading
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News
09 Nov 2012
DataDirect Networks takes aim at clustered NAS with SFA7700
DataDirect Networks (DDN) makes a play for clustered NAS customers with big data needs on its journey from HPC to scale-out supplier Continue Reading
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News
09 Nov 2012
German retailer Otto invests in neural software to net future sales
German retail giant Otto improves demand forecasting with neural network technology from Blue Yonder, a predictive analytics start-up Continue Reading
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Photo Story
07 Nov 2012
Scenes from EMC Momentum Vienna 2012
EMC Momentum took place in Vienna this year, at the Messe Wien Congress Centre. 1,100 EMC attendees descended on the conference for hands-on-labs and a selection of sessions. View photos from the event here. Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Nov 2012
Unilever enterprise data warehouse locked to business programmes
Unilever is building a global enterprise data warehouse (EDW) locked into the critical paths of high-profile business programmes. Continue Reading
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News
16 Oct 2012
Analytics, Decision Making & Teams That Do It Right
Experts advise how to make the most of analytics in this report from SAS and the Harvard Business Review. Continue Reading
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News
09 Oct 2012
Telefónica launches business to sell mobile data
O2 parent company Telefónica is to offer user data from customer's mobile phones to organisations who want to analyse customer activity Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Oct 2012
How to manage unstructured data for business benefit
The cloud offers some progress in the resource-sapping management of unstructured data, but it is critical to work back from the business case. Continue Reading
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News
25 Sep 2012
Big Data Analytics
IDC explores the initial impact that Big Data is having on organisations, its impact on IT architectures, delivery models and future roadmaps. Continue Reading
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News
18 Sep 2012
Big data: Lessons from the leaders
This research from the Economist Intelligence Unit assess how far companies have progressed in their use of big data and examines how they can turn it to business advantage. Continue Reading